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Year 30 (XXX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Vinicius and Longinus (or, less frequently, year 783 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 30 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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• The Romans found the city of Tournai in Belgium.^{[citation needed]}

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• The Kushan Empire is founded (approximate date).^{[citation needed]}

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• 30 April - After being condemned to death by the Jewish court known as the Sanhedrin Jesus of Nazareth is crucified at Golgotha^{[citation needed]}
• The Sermon on the Mount (according to proponents of the 33 theory, although 27 or 28 is more likely). Jesus speaks to his disciples and a large crowd.^{[citation needed]}
• April 7 (Good Friday) – Crucifixion of Jesus (suggested date, but it is also suggested that he died on April 3, 33).^[1]
• Probable beginning of pontificate of Saint Peter (in Catholic reckoning, until 64).^{[citation needed]}

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• Phaedrus translates Aesop's fables, and composes some of his own.^{[citation needed]}
• Velleius Paterculus writes the general history of the countries known in Antiquity.^{[citation needed]}

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• November 8 – Marcus Cocceius Nerva, Roman emperor (d. 98)^{[citation needed]}
• Marcus Ulpius Traianus, senator and father of emperor Trajan^{[citation needed]}
• Quintus Petillius Cerialis, brother-in-law of Vespasian^{[citation needed]}

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• Judas Iscariot, disciple of Jesus, reportedly committed suicide shortly before the death of his teacher^{[citation needed]}
• Jesus (born about 4 BC; one of the most widely accepted dates by modern scholars, along with 33)^{[citation needed]}
• Shammai, president of the Sanhedrin and talmudic scholar^{[citation needed]}
• John the Baptist^{[2][citation needed]}

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Harold Lee "Hal" Lindsey (born November 23, 1929) is an American evangelist and Christian writer. He is a Christian Zionist and dispensationalist author. He currently resides in Texas.

Biography[link]

He was born on November 23, 1929 to Percy Lacy Lindsey and Daisy Lee Freeman in Houston, Texas. Lindsey suspended his course of study at the University of Houston to serve in the Korean War, then worked as a Mississippi River tugboat captain.

He entered Dallas Theological Seminary in 1958 (with the help of Lt. Col. Robert Thieme, pastor of Berachah Church in Houston, which Lindsey had attended) where he studied with John F. Walvoord, author of the 1974 best-seller Armageddon, Oil, and the Middle East Crisis. He graduated from Dallas with a Master of Theology, majoring in the New Testament and early Greek literature.^[1] With Jan, the second of his four wives, he worked with Campus Crusade for Christ and continued with them until 1969. He then helped a mission in Southern California which continued until 1976. He was also a frequent speaker and Sunday School teacher at Melodyland Christian Center in Anaheim, California. In 1969, he wrote his first, and most well-known book, The Late, Great Planet Earth.

Published in 1970 by Zondervan, The Late, Great Planet Earth became a bestseller. Coming on the heels of the Six-Day War, the book fueled the popularity of Dispensationalism and its support of ethnic Jews as the "chosen people of God". Many of Lindsey's later writings are sequels or revisions and extensions of his first book. In 1994, he earned his Doctorate of Theology from California School of Theology.^[2]

Lindsey hosted International Intelligence Briefing on the Trinity Broadcasting Network and serves on the executive board of Christian Voice.^[3]

International Intelligence Briefing was removed from the air on TBN for the entire month of December 2005. Lindsey claimed that this was because "some at the network apparently feel that [his] message is too pro-Israel and too anti-Muslim."^[4] TBN owner Paul Crouch, however, contended that "TBN has never been and is not now against Israel and the Jewish people."^[5] Crouch said that Lindsey's show was pre-empted for Christmas programming. Lindsey countered that this was the first time his show had been preempted for the entire month of December. TBN later admitted that a secondary reason for pre-empting the show was that it "placed Arabs in a negative light."^[6]

Lindsey resigned from TBN on January 1, 2006, and indicated that he would pursue another television ministry. His new program, The Hal Lindsey Report, is focused on Biblical prophecy and current events, and is carried on the Angel One and DayStar networks. In January 2007, Lindsey announced that he would be returning to the TBN network. The Hal Lindsey Report airs on TBN under his own financing.^[7]

He wrote in an essay on WorldNetDaily that Barack Obama was paving the way for, and demonstrating the world's readiness for, the antichrist, "Obama is correct in saying that the world is ready for someone like him — a messiah-like figure, charismatic and glib ... The Bible calls that leader the Antichrist. And it seems apparent that the world is now ready to make his acquaintance."^[8]

Biblical Interpretations[link]

In 1970, Lindsey wrote in The Late, Great Planet Earth that the biblical prophets identified certain nations that would ally with other countries to form four major spheres of political power during the same time era that Israel would be reestablished as a nation ^[9]. Lindsey wrote that these nations and their allies can be identified as: (1) Russia and its allies, (2) China and other oriental countries, (3) Egypt and other Middle Eastern countries, and (4) an alliance of Western European nations ^[10].

Lindsey wrote that the Western European alliance is a revived form of the ancient Roman Empire, and is predicted in the books of Daniel and Revelation symbollically as ten horns or ten kings. ^[11]. Lindsey quotes from Time Magazine, July 4, 1969, that the goal of the European Economic Community, which preceded the European Union, was to establish a ten-nation economic community ^[12]. Lindsey concludes, based on this and other sources, that this alliance of Western European nations is fulfilling this prophecy and will ultimately be ruled by the Antichrist ^[13]. The European Union currently has 27 members.

Lindsey also noted that the prophets did not directly or indirectly mention the United States of America, and concluded that the U.S. would lose its leadership position on the geo-political stage by the time the Tribulation of the end times arrived ^[14].

In a later book, entitled, The 1980s: Countdown to Armageddon, Lindsey wrote that he felt compelled to write because "so many things have occurred" in the last ten years (since he wroteThe Late Great Planet Earth). ^[15] He believed that it was possible that the battle of Armageddon could take place in the not too distant future, stating, "the decade of the 1980s could very well be the last decade of history as we know it." ^[16]. He noted again that the U.S. is not mentioned in Bible prophecy as a leading nation and listed some scenarios that, at that time, seemed plausible to him: (1) A takeover by communists, (2) destruction by a surprise Soviet nuclear attack, and (3) becoming a dependent of the 10-nation European community.^[17] The book was on the NY Times bestseller list for over 20 weeks.

Planet Earth - 2000 A.D., published in the early 1990s, states that Christians should not plan to still be on earth by the year 2000.

Lindsey's earlier predictions all assumed that the Cold War would continue indefinitely, and had eschatological significance; he explicitly identified Russia with the apocalyptic figure of Gog. He also assumed that the 1960s counterculture would eventually become the dominant culture, and become the source of prophesied "immorality" that would lead to the establishment of a false religion.

Bibliography[link]

• The Late, Great Planet Earth
• Satan is Alive and Well On Planet Earth
• The Liberation of Planet Earth
• There's a New World Coming
• The 1980s: Countdown to Armageddon
• The Final Battle
• The Terminal Generation
• Planet Earth: The Final Chapter
• Rapture
• Planet Earth - 2000 A.D.
• Apocalypse Code
• Blood Moon
• Vanished into Thin Air: the Hope of Every Believer
• The Everlasting Hatred: The Roots of Jihad

See also[link]

• Christian eschatology
• Unfulfilled religious prophecies
• Summary of Christian eschatological differences
• Christian Voice (USA)

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• Hal Lindsey's web site
• Hal Lindsey commentaries on WorldNetDaily
• The Hal Lindsey Report at Daystar Television Network
• The Hal Lindsey Report at Trinity Broadcasting Network
• Hal Lindsey at Rapture Ready
• Hal Lindsey at the Internet Movie Database
• International Intelligence Briefing at the Internet Movie Database